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Acknowledgments

Before Oct 7, we sometimes doubted whether we could pull a wedding off
in under two months of planning and preparation. Luckily, thanks to
all of our wonderful helpers, we had a beautiful wedding and lots of
sweet memories that we will cherish forever.

We are particularly grateful to the Spiller & Chuah families for their
love, support, patience, and for embracing our many crazy ideas with
good cheer.

We would also like to thank our many friends who volunteered their
time, and shared their talents in photography, videography, arts/crafts,
flower arranging,...

More about our heroes ...

Families

Spiller & Chuah families busy working on the photoboard.
Mama Spiller made sure we were well fed during the last few stressful days
right before the wedding, and Papa Spiller did a great job with the
introductions, toasts, and poem during the wedding reception. Chen-Nee's
sisters provided input on the tea ceremony.

Mark's sister, Shirley, helped with set-up,
and kept the kids out of trouble.

Mark's aunt, Helga, officiated our wedding.

Mark's uncle, Karl, provided limousine service for us.

The Wedding Coordinator and her Assistants

Chien-Ning Yu & Jocelyn Nee

Sharad Agarwal (standing)

Chee-Whye Chin

This team was the first to arrive on the big day, and jumped right to work!
Jocelyn, our main wedding coordinator, was kept busy with a thick
stack of print-outs (instruction sheets, seating assignments, picture
groups, labels, etc.), and worked closely with our other
helpers. Our assistant coordinators, Chien-Ning, Sharad, and
Chee-Whye, helped with the general set-up both inside and outside the
Brazilian Building. End result? Everything went beautifully!

David Gay, Uthara Srinivasan, Ching Shang, and Li Yi were our
dedicated photographers. Thanks to them and other guests, we had over
1000 analog and digital pictures to choose from (including all of the
pictures on these pages). Ching also helped take the pictures for our
wedding favors.

Musicians & Artists

Many thanks to Heloise and Jukka-Pekka for all the time they spent practicing
the pieces that they played for our wedding ceremony.

Jukka-Pekka Vainio, the cellist

Heloise Hse, the pianist

Uthara Srinivasan drew the raccoon & the polar bear
that greeted the guests as they signed in.

Maria Bauer, a family friend, did an amazing job arranging the roses
for the bouquet, car, and the cake/head/guest tables

Hostess at Sign-in Table & Ushers

Theen-Theen Tan & Niny Khor

Tao Ye & Dan Garcia

Theen-Theen and Niny greeted guests at the entrance, and helped them
navigate the seat assignments, photo groups, memo boards,
etc.

Tao and Dan distributed and "proctored" the
wedding pop-quiz. Together with John, they helped usher guests
to their seats and to organize the group pictures.

John Heck

Pre-Wedding Helpers

Claudio Pinello and Alessandra Nardi

Tz Yin Lin

Remember the paper invitation you received in the mail? Claudio
meticulously measured and punched the holes on both the card and
vellum to make sure they were centered, while Alessandra
helped tie the ribbons.

Tz Yin helped shuttle the Chuah family the evening before and the
morning of the wedding.

Last, but definitely not least, thank you to all of you for the
roles that you have played in our lives!; the time you've spent with us,
the ideas and inspiration you shared with us, and the thoughts that you've
triggered (both knowingly and un-knowingly!). We've made it to where we
are in no small part thanks to you, and really appreciate you in our lives...